What is Exit Poll?

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What is Exit Polls?

Most of the people still are confused between exit polls and opinion poll, here we let you know how both the terms are totally different from each other. Exit polls happen when voter exit from the polling booth and that time the data collected in order to know which political party getting the support of the voter and why voter giving their vote, it is very interesting for the political party and voter both to know about the result before the final result declared by Election Commission of India. There are various methods being used via multiple mediums such as social media, email campaigning, various media houses agency does it on behalf of them, they ask the citizens to opine about the upcoming exit polls results.

It is quite interesting for the citizens to know the updates of the electoral contest with each passing days and social media is one of the prominent platforms where people get the latest updates and participate in every survey and give their valuable opinion there, Facebook is prevalent among other social media platform because it captured more than 73% social media market.

If you check the previous exit polls results, they are almost accurate and to be considered a genuine source to estimate the results of the elections. In India, these exit polls impacted the people opine, the people who they are still to exercise their vote, sometimes they change their opinion because of so many reasons like friend circle, rumours on social media, getting updates through TV but in case of the opinion poll, the switch in opinion is not so drastic.

Because of these factors, the Election Commission took strong action against every participant agency and told them do not show the exit polls results before and during the polling, after polling they are allowed to show the results.

Exit polls persistent been the reliable source to collect demographic data of voters, it is critical for an electoral candidate to know who participated in the voting process, with the help of exit poll they easily can get estimated information are they winning or losing the election and also get why voter has not given them their support and why voter voted for a particular candidate and more.

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Exit polls are conducted by private news broadcasting agencies and newspaper agencies such as India Today, CVoter, and The Times Group. India is the largest democratic country globally, so predicting exit poll is not an easy task; numerous agencies are involved during the election to show their rough prediction.

How are exit polls conducted?

The polls are carried out by private companies and media houses such as India Today, CVoter, The Times Group, ABP- CSDS, Times Now – CNX, NewsX-Neta, Republic-Jan Ki Baat and many more.

How are they conducted?

Some sampling techniques are used to carry out this whole process, like Random sampling and systematic sampling. These agencies are asking the different age, caste, gender of the people to predict the outcome. We have mentioned only a few parameters, but these variables changes. city to city, place to place

When are exit polls Released?

Exit polls results could be published and broadcasted only after half an hour after the last phase of polling conclusion.

 

 

 

 

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